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Thursday, July 20, 2017

My Summer 2017 Reading List

Hello, and welcome. Today I'm
sharing with you the books currenly in my summer reading list. Hopefully I'll have time for a few more by the time we actually go on vacation at the end of August, but for now I'll be focusing on these.

Of the seven books I picked, four I believe are typical summer reads ad hopefully will turn out to be great beach companions. Then I added two thrillers and one paranormal book just for good measure.

You have all the details of the books below:

Kyra has
lived her life in the shadow of a powerful Grigori brother. She’s ignored her
own desires for the good of her family, but an unexpected request from Thailand
sends her on a mission that could change her life and alter the fate of free
Grigori all over the world. Sons of the Fallen hidden in the mountains of
Thailand have adapted an ancient human magic for their own purposes. Will this
practice bring peace or lead to even greater danger for the Irin race?
A simple diplomatic mission sends Leo to Bangkok, but he didn’t expect to see a
familiar face in surveillance photographs. He’s tried everything to drive Kyra
from his mind, since he was convinced the gentle kareshta wanted to hide from
the world. How did she turn up halfway across the globe, living with Grigori
who may or may not be Irin allies?
Leo has bided his time. He’s given Kyra her space.
But this scribe is ready to hear a kareshta sing.

It all started that night in the woods.Cass Anderson didn’t stop to help the woman in the car, and now she’s dead.Ever since, silent calls have been plaguing Cass and she’s sure someone is watching her.Consumed
by guilt, she’s also starting to forget things. Whether she took her
pills, what her house alarm code is – and if the knife in the kitchen
really had blood on it.Bestselling author B A Paris is
back with a brand new psychological thriller full of twists and turns
that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed.OK, so the truth is
that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous
commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn’t
really hers. But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren’t they?Until
her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful
boss Demeter gives her the sack. All Katie’s hopes are shattered. She
has to move home to Somerset, where she helps her dad with his new
glamping business. Then Demeter and her family book in for a
holiday, and Katie sees her chance. But should she get revenge on the
woman who ruined her dreams - or try to get her job back? Does Demeter –
the woman who has everything – actually have such an idyllic life
herself? Maybe they have more in common than it seems. And what’s wrong with not-so-perfect, anyway?

Corporate attorney Hannah DuPont-Lowell always pictured herself
returning to New Orleans to retire—just not yet. But after her Manhattan
company abruptly lays off its staff, there’s no better place to figure
out a next move than the porch of her plantation-style home.
Nestled in the stunning Garden District, the DuPont House has been in
Hannah’s family for two centuries. With its eighteen rooms and two
guesthouses, it’s far more home than widowed Hannah needs. Still, it
could make a wonderful inn, especially if she can convince her friends
and former coworkers Tonya, Jasmine, and Nydia to join in the venture.
But in the meantime, Hannah has a high school reunion to attend…
College Professor St. John McNair, Hannah’s one-time classmate, is
still the finest guy in any room. Between Hannah’s willowy, blonde
beauty, and his uncanny resemblance to Marvin Gaye, they make a striking
pair. And gradually, their rekindled friendship moves toward romance.
Still, Hannah is too bruised by her late husband’s infidelities to trust
a man again. But her friends’ arrival and encouragement just might show
her a path through uncertainty—straight to a vibrant, joyful new life…

WHEN A PARTY PLANNER MEETS A PARTY POOPER ...things will
probably not turn out the way either would like. Liz Coppersmith hopes
to move beyond kids' parties at Chuck E. Cheese to planning premier
events among the upper crust in Newport, Rhode Island. Her first
upscale client is confirmed bachelor Jack Eastman, who's struggling to
keep the family empire afloat and would be just fine with Chuck E.
Cheese. More problematic for Jack are an untrained puppy, two
illegitimate toddlers, a runaway mother and an aging Lothario father.
Liz's problems are simpler: an historic mystery, an amnesiac friend, a
thief on the loose and a recurring apparition that may or may not be her
imagination.

Struggling to make ends meet after a messy divorce, Sadie Harris is
at the end of her tether. Her waitressing gig isn't enough to pay the
bills let alone secure primary custody of her son, Jayden, a battle she
refuses to lose. Desperate, she accepts a position assisting Dawson
Reed—the same Dawson Reed who recently stood trial for the murder of his
adoptive parents. Joining him at his isolated farm seems risky, but
Sadie is out of options. Dawson has given small town Silver
Springs plenty of reasons to be wary, but he's innocent of the charges
against him. He wants to leave his painful past behind and fix up the
family farm so he can finally bring his dependent sister home where she
belongs. As Sadie and Dawson's professional relationship grows
into something undeniably personal, Sadie realizes there's more to
Dawson than the bad boy everyone else sees—he has a good heart, one that
might even be worth fighting for.

In Africa, a mysterious outbreak spreads quickly. Teams from the CDC
and WHO respond, but they soon learn that there is more to the epidemic
than they believed. It may be the beginning of a global experiment--an
event that will change the human race forever.A
hundred miles north of Alaska, a US Coast Guard research vessel
discovers a sunken submarine. It has no national identification. No
corporate identity. It has been down there for decades, and deep inside,
teams find evidence of an experiment that may answer the deepest
mysteries of human existence.Ten days later, in a remote village
in Kenya, several local residents contract a mysterious disease. The
next day, two American aid workers fall ill. The WHO and CDC send teams,
led by Dr. Peyton Shaw--an epidemiologist who has stopped some of the
most deadly outbreaks in recent history. Peyton is good at her job, but
she is driven by her own dark secret--and haunted by mysteries in her
past.What Peyton finds in Kenya is an outbreak very
different from any she has ever seen. As the pandemic sweeps the globe,
Peyton is drawn deeper into a conspiracy of unimaginable scope, a plot
that appears to be linked to her past. The answers, and the key to
stopping the pandemic, are revelations that carry a price--for all of
us.

All of these are fairly recent books. The Silent, by Elizabeth Hunter, will only be launched on July 27th and there's no pre-order link on Amazon, but for the others you can find below the Amazon Links.

Oh, and I will obviously post reviews of all these books as soon as I finish them!

6 comments:

Oooooooooo, I read My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella this past month, and I reALLLLLLY enjoyed it. Sophie creates great characters and fun stories. But this one, I loved loved loved the boss interaction. *Maniacal laughter*